I wouldnt particulaty class myself as 'uber intelligent', but I managed to figure out how to use Imgburn pretty well on my own and for the parts I wasnt sure about there were plenty of guides on 'how to...' posted on here, failing that the Beta Team here are spot on and very helpfull. Before spouting off about the problems, like Corny said you should post a log of the failed burn, then the problem could be found and a solution given to you.
More than likely its a very simple problem your having, like crap media or firmware problems. Ive not seen anything posted on here that hasnt had a solution to it yet.
Have a little patience and you will be rewarded. But your first stop should be the guides section.

Bloody hell, how time flies eh.
My first job when I left school was in a computer shop selling the speccy, mind you though, I always tried to talk people into getting the 64 instead.
I started off with the vic20 then went up to the 64.
You guys remember Jeff Minter of Llamasoft, he hated the spectrum and used to have them in most of his games to shoot up, one in particular, Revenge of the Mutant Camels(I think), when you shot the spectrum as it whizzed around the sky all the keys blew off, just like real life...
What about what came after the Spectrum, remember that one???
The Quantum, was from what I remember quite an advanced machine for the time when you consider the competition was IBM and Apple

I bought a Dell laptop, but vowed to never to get anything from them again. The crap they stuck on the thing slowed it down to almost steampowered speed, took an eternity to remove it all. I also found their customer support a bit crap too.
Glad to see you had such a good result from your little problem, hope they have indeed got their acts together.
Wonder if this is available in the UK as well?????

Depends what floats your boat m8.
I dont play a lot of games really.
I play in a clan for Call of Duty 2.
F.E.A.R is brilliant for a fps game.
Used to play Unreal Tournament 2004, the new 2007 version when it arrives should be very good.
Also waiting for Medal of Honour Airbourne to arrive, that looks brilliant.
But like I said, depends what you like to play.
Didnt pay for the 360 either, if I had I think I would have been kicking myself now.

Did they go ahead with their ridiculous idea or the games being registerable with the console?
ie. when you buy a game its registered to that console only, this was their idea to stop piracy. Problem is it would kill the secondhand game market for this console. Its something that was mentioned in its infancy, but not heard anything about this lately.
I personally wouldnt buy one, Ive got an Xbox 360 that I dont touch, played Call of Duty 3, completed it and not touched the thing for 3 months now.
Far prefer playing games on my pc for now.